Athens

Two treasures from Shanghai Museum were put on display on Friday at the Athens Acropolis Museum for an exhibition which will be on display until April 30, 2018. From Saturday October 28, Greece's National Day, to springtime, Greeks and foreign...

A Chinese investor has bought 100 apartments in the Exarchia area, a Kathimerini newspaper report says. According to the report, the Chinese man made use of them through short-term rental platforms and then sold them as an investment portfolio to...

A different kind of taxi, a grey vehicle with UK plates, has been spotted in the streets of central Athens over the last few days. It is called the Fake Taxi and it belongs to an international porn web site...

The British magazine Economist says that anti-austerity artists are impressing the tourists in Athens with their imaginative street art and graffiti on buildings. Much of the graffiti scrawled or stencilled on empty buildings and shuttered shop fronts has a resentful tone....

Athens was named the Emerging Cultural City of the Year for 2017 at the Leading Culture Destinations (LCD) Award in London on Friday. The Greek capital was lauded for managing to maintain a thriving cultural scene despite the country’s protracted...

On Friday, the Athens-based airline company Air Mediterranean announced the launch of seven new international flights out of Athens that will be flying to, London, Stockholm, Jeddah, Casablanca, Khartoum and Iraq (Baghdad and Erbil), as of November 1. Ticket prices for...

Hundreds of people gathered on Wednesday night at Pedion tou Areos (Field of Mars), one of the biggest parks in central Athens, to protest against the abandonment of the park, and to leaving it to its fate. With lanterns and...

The colossal Temple of Olympian Zeus or 'Olympeion' in central Athens; one of the signature monuments of the Greek capital, is to undergo complete structural repair and restoration. The go-ahead for the plans was given by Greece's Central Archaeological Council,...

A large anti-fascist protest march was underway in central Athens on Saturday to mark the four-year anniversary of the murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas, for which a member of Golden Dawn is being tried. Members of anti-fascist groups, representatives of...

Its inhabitants know this for a fact, but now it's official - the Greek capital is the most stressful city in the EU, according to a survey conducted by international cleaning services, Zipjet. The survey examined the overall mental health...